Laptop screen replacement in Strathmore
CompuTech replaces laptop screens for Strathmore, as a drop-off at the SW Calgary shop. Tell us the model number when you call and you'll know before you drive in whether your panel is on the shelf or has to be ordered.
- ✓ No fix, no fee
- ✓ One all-in price for parts jobs
- ✓ No charge to look at drop-offs
- ✓ Most repairs done same day
Hours, address and more about CompuTech
| Day | Shop | In-home |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Tue | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Wed | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Thu | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Fri | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Sat | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
| Sun | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Drop-off only |
- 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB. In-shop service by appointment. Get directions →
- In-home visits booked by phone or online. Call before noon for same day.
- 587-317-0482
- Hours
- CompuTech's shop at 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB is open Mon–Sun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. In-home visits across Calgary run Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM and 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. In-shop service is by appointment, booked weekdays 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, weekends 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Sunday is in-shop appointments only.
- The shop
- CompuTech's shop is at 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB. In-shop service is by appointment, booked by phone or online. Call CompuTech on 587-317-0482.
- Booking
- In-home visits from CompuTech across Calgary are booked by phone or through the site; calling before noon gives the best chance of a same-day slot.
- Pricing
- CompuTech's in-home visits in Calgary are $99 an hour and remote sessions $65 an hour, 1 hour minimum, then billed by the half hour. A repair that needs parts gets one price with the visit included, agreed before any work starts, and if it can't be fixed, you pay nothing. Machines dropped at the shop are looked at for no charge. Outside Calgary a travel fee applies, confirmed before the visit; Calgary has none.
- Turnaround
- Most CompuTech repairs in Calgary are finished the same day. Calling before noon gives the best chance of a same-day slot.
- Who turns up
- CompuTech is one technician who answers his own phone and does the work himself, fixing Calgary's laptops, networks and smart homes since 2015, over 5,000 repairs. CompuTech is rated 5.0 out of 5 across 758 reviews.
- Machines
- CompuTech repairs Windows and Mac laptops and desktops in Calgary, and rescues photos and files from phones and tablets that won't start.
- Customers
- CompuTech works with homes and small businesses in Calgary. Business IT is month to month with no lock-in contract.
- Not offered
- CompuTech is not a phone repair shop, and sends a machine still under manufacturer warranty back to Apple, Dell or Microsoft when that is the better deal for the customer.
- Service area
- CompuTech comes to homes and offices across Calgary and Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane and Okotoks. Strathmore, High River, Langdon, De Winton, Rocky View County, Crossfield and Diamond Valley are covered by arrangement.
- Facts reviewed
- Reviewed September 2026. Hours change on the day they change; call 587-317-0482 to confirm before a long drive.
Screen symptoms and what they usually mean
Not sure which of these you have? The external monitor test tells you most of it in a minute.
Straight about the distance
CompuTech will be straight about the distance to Strathmore. We'll be honest about this one instead of pretending. Strathmore is in the wider group of communities Mo travels to, not the four towns on the daily in-home run. An on-site visit here's arranged rather than booked into a standard window.
For most jobs that doesn't matter, because most jobs are better done on the bench anyway. Drop the machine at 303 Wentworth Row SW on your way into the city, we look at it at no charge, we call you with the fault and a price, and it's ready when you next come in. The shop is open seven days, which makes fitting it around a trip easy.
When an on-site visit makes sense
Some work genuinely has to happen where the equipment lives. Network and Wi-Fi problems, a desktop that's part of a bigger setup, a small office with several machines, printers and a shared drive. For those, call and we'll arrange a visit rather than have you disconnect half a room and drive it in. It works like any visit, by the hour, with a travel fee on top that Mo confirms before setting off.
If the job is one laptop with one fault, drop-off is faster and cheaper for you, and we'll say so on the phone instead of quietly booking a trip.
Work out whether it's actually the screen
Before CompuTech quotes a screen in Calgary, it is worth knowing whether the screen is even the fault. If the glass is visibly cracked, it's the screen and you can skip this part. If the display is black, dim, flickering or striped, it's worth thirty seconds of checking, because the fix could be far cheaper than a panel.
Plug in an external monitor
Connect a TV or a monitor with an HDMI or USB-C cable. If the picture appears on the external display, the computer and the graphics are fine and the problem is in the screen, the cable or the backlight. If the external display is also black, the fault is further in and a new panel wouldn't have helped at all.
Shine a torch at the screen
Turn the laptop on, hold a phone torch close to the display at an angle, and look carefully. If you can make out a faint desktop or a cursor, the panel is alive and the backlight has failed. That's a different repair from a dead panel and worth knowing before anyone quotes you.
Move the lid slowly
If the image flickers, cuts out at a certain angle, or comes back when you press near the hinge, that points at the display cable, not the panel. Cables are cheaper than screens. It's also a common outcome of a failing hinge, which is why we check the hinge whenever we see it.
You don't have to do any of this. We do it as part of looking at the machine. But if you would like to know roughly where you stand before picking up the phone, that's the order to check in.
Why the exact panel matters more than the model name
CompuTech matches replacement panels by part number, and this is why. One laptop model name can cover half a dozen different screens. Manufacturers ship the same machine with different resolutions, different brightness, different refresh rates, touch and non-touch versions, matte and glossy finishes, and connectors with different pin counts. They aren't interchangeable.
So we match on the part number printed on the back of your existing panel, not on what the laptop is called. It's the difference between getting your screen back and getting a screen back that's dimmer, slower or missing touch.
Panels and assemblies aren't the same job
On most conventional non-touch laptops, the panel is a separate part that comes out on its own. That's the straightforward version of this repair.
On modern Macs, most touchscreens, convertibles and Surface devices, the glass, touch layer and panel are bonded into one assembly and often glued into the lid. There's no glass-only repair on those, because there's no separate glass. It's a bigger part and more careful work, and you should know which of the two you have before you agree to anything.
| Machine | What gets replaced | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Conventional non-touch laptop | The bare panel | The straightforward version; often same-day when the part is in |
| Touchscreen or convertible | Bonded glass, touch layer and panel | One assembly, confirmed by part number first |
| Modern MacBook | Full display assembly | No bare-panel option on current models |
| Microsoft Surface | Glued display assembly | Re-adhered after replacement; the most involved version |
| Gaming laptop | The panel, matched on refresh rate | A near-enough panel loses the fast display you paid for |
- Non-touch laptop panels: usually a same-day job when the part is in
- Touch and convertible screens: bonded assembly, confirmed by part number first
- MacBook displays: full assembly rather than a bare panel on modern models
- Gaming laptops: the replacement has to match the refresh rate you paid for
- Backlight-only failures: a different fault from a dead panel, diagnosed before quoting
- Display cables: cheaper than a screen, and often the real cause of a flicker
Same-day, and when it honestly isn't
Same-day screen replacement at CompuTech, and when it honestly isn't. Common panels for common models are frequently replaced the same day. That covers a lot of the mainstream laptops people bring in.
It's not everything. Unusual resolutions, high refresh gaming panels, bonded touch assemblies and older or rarer models often have to be ordered, and availability depends entirely on the exact part your machine takes. That's why we ask for the model up front: it lets us give you a real answer on the phone, not a hopeful one after we already have your laptop.
Using it while you wait
If the machine still works on an external monitor, you can keep using it while a part is on its way. If the glass is cracked and shedding, stop, because loose glass gets into the keyboard and the hinge, and pressing on a damaged panel can spread the damage further into it.
When a screen replacement isn't the right call
CompuTech will say when a screen replacement isn't the right call. Most of the time it is. A screen on a machine that's otherwise fine is a good repair, and it costs a fraction of a replacement laptop.
The exceptions are worth naming. A bonded assembly on a cheap laptop or an older Chromebook can cost close to what the machine is worth. A cracked screen on a machine that also needs a battery, a hinge and a drive is three repairs pretending to be one. And a screen replacement on a laptop with a failing board is money spent on the wrong problem.
In all three cases you'll get the number and the reasoning, and if we think you should not do it we'll say so. We would rather tell you a repair isn't worth it than sell you one that's not.
The one thing to sort before you need it
The one thing CompuTech would rather Strathmore customers sorted before they needed it. Data recovery is the job we would rather you never need. It's also the one where distance matters least, because a drive travels perfectly well in a padded envelope on the passenger seat.
If everything you would miss lives on one computer, that's one failure away from gone. A backup that runs on its own, to a drive and to the cloud, isn't expensive and it's not complicated once it's set up. We'll set it up as part of another job if you ask, which is usually the cheapest time to do it.
And if you're already in trouble, a drive that clicks, a machine that won't boot, files that vanished, stop using the device and call. The odds get worse the longer it runs, and a drive dropped at the shop costs nothing to look at.
No surprises. Ever.
You know what a visit costs before you book, and you agree the price of any repair before work begins. If we can't fix it, you don't pay. Simple as that.
Visits are 1 hour minimum, then billed by the half hour. If Mo can't fix it, you don't pay, and nothing gets opened or ordered until you've said go.
- In-home visit
- $99/hr
- Remote session
- $65/hr
- In-shop drop-off
- No charge to look
Three steps to a working screen
“I highly recommend CompuTech, Mohammed is amazing! He fixed our macbook pro screen with a very tight timeline and went above and beyond to make sure it was done in time. I was going out of town and apple was not able to fix the screen within my time frame, so I reached out to Mohammed.”
“Top tier service all the way! I had a laptop display issue that was beyond repair. Rather than recommend a costly display unit replacement, Mohammed gave me a very cost-effective swap option.”
“Mo at Computech found a great solution to repair my laptop in a very short timeline. He is honest, knowledgeable and won't try to upsell you on unnecessary gadgets. I will use him again if/when I have other problems with my aging laptop.”
Questions, answered
By arrangement rather than as a standard booking. Strathmore is in the wider group of communities Mo travels to, not the four towns on the daily in-home run, so call and we'll sort out what works.
Drop it at the shop at 303 Wentworth Row SW next time you're in the city. It's open seven days, there's no charge to look at a drop-off, and we call you with the fault and a price before anything is done.
For network problems, a small office, or a desktop wired into a bigger setup, yes. For one laptop with one fault, drop-off is faster and cheaper and we'll tell you that rather than book a trip.
Depends on the job and on parts. You get a real timeline with the quote, not an optimistic one, and if a part has to come in you'll know before you agree to anything.
Dropped at the shop, nothing. You only pay the repair price you agree to.
Plug in an external monitor. If the picture shows there, the computer is fine and the fault is the screen, its cable or the backlight. If the external is black too, a new screen wouldn't have fixed anything.
Shine a phone torch at it at an angle. If you can see a faint desktop, the panel works and the backlight has failed, which is a different repair. If there's nothing at all, it's more likely the panel or the cable.
Almost always the display cable, which runs through the hinge and wears. It's a cheaper part than a panel, and we check the hinge at the same time because a failing hinge is often what damaged the cable.
On a conventional non-touch laptop there's no separate glass, so the panel is replaced as one part. On touchscreens, convertibles, Macs and Surface devices, the glass is bonded to the display, so it's one assembly. Either way there's no cheap glass-only option.
Common panels are frequently done same-day. Unusual resolutions, high refresh gaming panels and bonded assemblies often have to be ordered, and you'll get a real timeline with the quote.
It should be identical, because we match by the part number on the back of your existing panel rather than by the laptop's model name. One model can ship with several different screens, and a near-enough match costs you brightness, resolution, refresh rate or touch.
It depends entirely on which panel your machine takes, which is why the look comes first. You get one all-in price, with the visit included, before any work starts, and if we can't fix it you don't pay.
You can, but it will spread. Cracks travel with heat, pressure and every time the lid closes. Loose glass also finds its way into the keyboard and the hinge, which adds cost later.
That's pressure damage to the liquid crystal layer, usually from something pressing on the lid. It doesn't stop and it doesn't heal. The panel needs replacing.
Usually not, and we'll tell you that rather than take the job. A single dead pixel is annoying and it's not a fault worth the price of a panel on most machines.
Yes. On modern Macs the display is a bonded assembly replaced as a unit rather than a bare panel, so we confirm the exact assembly for your model and year before quoting.
Yes, and the refresh rate matters. Gaming machines ship with different panels under the same model name, so we match on part number to keep the fast display you paid for.
That's the digitizer layer, not the display. On some machines it's a separate part, on bonded assemblies it's not. We diagnose which before quoting, because the difference is significant.
Either. Screen work is usually a bench job at 303 Wentworth Row SW, open seven days, but the diagnosis can happen at your place across Calgary and the nearby towns.
No. A screen replacement doesn't touch your storage at all.
Yes, and we'll say so. A bonded assembly on a cheap laptop or an old Chromebook can approach what the machine is worth, and a screen on a machine that also needs a battery, hinge and drive is really three repairs.
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